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Peppered Moth Simulation

Peppered Moth Simulation

Voicethread of Endangered Species by Kim Brown's Class

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Arthropods

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We are not alone!!!!

What is an arthropod?

Arthropod Slideshow

Essential Questions for this unit

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What do you have in common with these organisms?

How is your Ipod music library like the classification system used by scientists to organize organisms?

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The Sounds of Earth = Voyager Mission

Very Cool Video on a Worldwide effort to combine data on all known organisms.

Documentary of the History of Earth

Unit vocabulary

environment

ecosystem

organism

adaptation
Examples of many adaptations



structures

skills/ abilities


Protists








microorganism

arthropod

natural selection: Peppered Moth Simulation

species

insect

fossil

living

nonliving

extinct

variety

birds

reptiles

fish

mammals

amphibians

vertebrate= has backbone and a skeleton for support and protection of the soft internal organs,


invertebrate - an animal with no backbone, example insects and other arthropods, sponges, flatworms, annelids, molluscs(clams, oysters, etc.)



classification- sorting, organizing in groups that have common characteristics

artificial selection\natural selection (see video below)













fossil


stomatalites

paleontologist


kingdom

phylum

biologist

Latin

cold-blooded

warm blooded

predators

radioactive decay




inferences

experiment

hypothesis

controlled variable

manipulated variable

fair test

ice core sampling






















How to use a microscope, quite detailed.



Encyclopedia of Life. A worldwide effort to catalogue all of Earth's species.